Kevin Maher: Apparently I’m not gay enough to have real friendships with women

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I don’t recognise the stereotype. I know gay men who are brusque, who have misogynistic streaks

Ladies! Time to take the chardonnay out of the fridge, crack open the Green &
Black’s, throw on your snuggliest onesie and prepare to dish the dirt to
your new, handsome and decidedly non-female BFF! Because the scientific
community, courtesy of the journal Evolutionary Psychology and a
dedicated research team at the University of Texas, has finally proven what
a thousand lazy Hollywood rom-coms have known all along. Namely, that a
girl’s best friend isn’t diamonds, but, well, a very chatty gay man.

Yes, according to the Austin-based study, which analysed the dating advice
given to heterosexual women by other